The definition of an idol
is "an image or representation of a god used as an object of worship."
Schlossberg culls the pages of history and pulls out big picture idols
that we may not even recognize as "images" or "high places" of worship.
Yet, man is an idol factory (thank you John Calvin) and these are but a
few. Schlossberg's depth of study is truly impressive here. He weaves the idols together, shows their interdependence and leaves the reader armed with knowledge to confront the idols of our age. Unfortunately he also leaves the reader with a sense of morbid depression. It is the short-coming of the book I think. The truth is that there is only hope (socially) in a new Heaven and new Earth. The old are passing away and running headlong into judgment. It is a theme I have to constantly remind myself of when a book like this opens the depth of depravity before me. I wish Schlossberg had said as much.
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